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Interview  |  Ricky Manning
Best episode

Picture Which are the episodes that you worked on came out the best?

Oh boy. it's hard to pick one because, as I'm fond of saying, [my writing] got improved quite a lot on the show.

Normally the lot of a television writer is, you write it, it's in your head, it's magnificent, it's large, it's got scope, it's got perfect acting because you're hearing all the voices in your head and then there's the actual mundane necessity of actually getting it on film with actors and props that don't work and tight shooting schedules and not enough money and so forth.

So almost always you're looking at it saying "Well that's an 60 per cent of what I imagined it would be, or 70 or 80 per cent." On Farscape more often than not it was 110, 120 per cent of what I wrote down. People actually took it further than the miserable pages that I handed in, which is marvellous.

So it's hard to single out a particular episode because I think almost universally we were all amazed by what everybody brought to the table and how everything came up as a result. That said, probably the one I'm fondest of is Won't Get Fooled Again because there was just something about that one. Everybody just jumped into the insanity of it and really got in the spirit of it. It was very strange, it was a frightening episode for everybody involved.

Farscape did a lot of those where [we felt], "This one worries us, this one could really be good or it could really be awful," but Rock and David always encouraged us, "We've got to go for that, we've got to take chances, we've got to go out there. If we're going to fail we're going to fail big". So in that way they are all my favourites.



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